This March 12 piece by Nerma Jelacic from The Guardian reflects our sentiments precisely. Even in death, Milosevic wins again The death of Slobodan Milosevic has put a smile on many Bosnian faces, but I am sad. Not because the… Read moreSlobodan Milosevic cheats fate
From Turkey’s Zaman, March 9: Turkish Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul said they spoke with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) President Mohammed El Baradei about Turkey’s nuclear energy program, which is expected to be announced shortly,… Read moreTurkey gets nuclear fever
From AP, via the Burlington Free Press, March 9: NEWFANE — Voters gathered Tuesday in an 1832 white-clapboard town hall to conduct their community’s annual business and to call for the impeachment of President Bush. “In the U.S. presently, there… Read moreVermont towns call for Bush impeachment
As we have noted before, these annual State Department human rights reports are not always so objective. But this year’s report throws a little cold water in the face of the Administration’s official optimism on Iraq—even if it implicitly gives… Read moreState Department documents Iraq torture
How to win friends and influence people. From the Iraqi League, March 4: On 28th of Feb, 2006, a group of female students were returning home on board the official 40-seater bus belonging to the Mosul Institute of Teachers. As… Read moreUS troops order Iraqi girls to strip
It would almost be comical in its choreographed predictability, if the stakes for world peace weren’t so high. From Knight-Ridder, March 8: The war of words over Iran’s nuclear program grew harsher Wednesday, as Iran threatened to inflict “harm and… Read moreIran threatens “harm and pain”; Cheney threatens “consequences”
WW4 REPORT Editor Bill Weinberg will be speaking on Friday March 10 in Barre, MA, at a double-feature screening of films on the Zapatista movement in Mexico and the civil resistance in Iraq. The latest installment in the Barre Winter… Read moreBill Weinberg to speak on Iraq, Chiapas in Mass.
From AP, March 2: Al-Qaida has encouraged its followers to attack oil pipelines and facilities in Muslim countries and tankers but not wells, according to a document posted on a Web site by the group that targeted the world’s largest… Read moreAl-Qaeda: target oil infrastructure
From Reuters, March 8: KHARTOUM – Shouting “Down, Down USA,” thousands of Sudanese protested in Khartoum on Wednesday against any deployment of U.N. troops to the western Darfur region. “Get out all foreigners, we don’t want you here,” shouted 21-year-old… Read moreSudan threatens “Darfur Jihad”
From Prensa Latina, March 8: A call to return illegally owned lands was launched by Bolivia´s President Evo Morales, while warning his administration will put an end to unproductive large landed estates. On his Tuesday statement after assigning Saul Salazar… Read moreBolivia: Evo to free the land?
Just to get both sides of the story, first this account (in rather poor English) from Cuba’s Prensa Latina: La Paz, Mar 8 – Bolivia conditioned the return of weaponry and technology the US supplied to an elite military unit… Read moreBolivia: military tension with US —already
Ginger Thompson writes for the New York Times, Feb. 27: MEXICO CITY, Feb. 26 A secret report prepared by a special prosecutor’s office says the Mexican military carried out a “genocide plan” of kidnapping, torturing and killing hundreds of suspected… Read moreMexico: “dirty war” files reveal “genocide plan”
